Helen Gibson
Also Known As: Rose August Wenger
Biography: Helen Gibson (born Rose August Wegner) was an American film actress, vaudeville performer, radio performer, film producer, trick rider, and rodeo performer; and is considered to be the first American professional stunt woman.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: August 27, 1892
Deathday: October 10, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hollywood Story
Overview: A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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The Lightning Warrior
Overview: A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Loot
Overview: Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from the jeweler Arabin. A gang of crooks led by Pete Fielding, known as "The Shadow," plans to keep Hildreth from going to Arabin's until they have robbed the store. Actress Morn Light, whom the Shadow loves, agrees to entice Hildreth to her apartment to be imprisoned. When she warns Hildreth because she wants to avenge her father's death, which was caused by the Shadow, the Shadow overhears and captures them both.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-06
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The Broken Trestle
Overview: The Broken Trestle is a silent action Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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One Chance in a Hundred
Overview: Billy Warren, timekeeper on the construction job, arouses the enmity of Brent and Easton when he resents their bullying of the other men. Pay day finds the men celebrating in riotous fashion, and Brent in a crazed moment breaks into the station and attacks Helen. Her cries bring Warren, who trounces the bully.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-20
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The Capture of Red Stanley
Overview: Red Stanley's band has successfully robbed the express car and the members are making good their escape when they come upon Helen and her girl chum riding in the woods. The girls are set upon but they succeed by desperate riding in making their escape temporarily and, when danger seems near again, are saved by the approaching railroad detectives searching for the Stanley band. A running fight results in the capture of one of the band, but Stanley and his chief aide escape. Under cover of darkness, as Helen is working alone in the desolate station, the two enter and bind and gag her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-27
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The Treasure Train
Overview: "Red" Byrd and his aides succeed in learning that a large treasure is being shipped on a certain freight car under special guard. They overpower the relief operator at Helen's station and tamper with the signals so that the treasure train stops, while the crew runs ahead to investigate, leaving Spencer alone to guard the treasure.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-10
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The Mysterious Cipher
Overview: Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defrauding the railroad. A car-load of cheap furniture is shipped with a valuation of $40,000 on it. Blanding, the tool of Chilton and his partner, awaits at Lone Point a telegram giving the number of the car.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-24
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The Chinatown Mystery
Overview: Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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The Wrong Man
Overview: A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-07
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Thorobred
Overview: Helen Martin takes her father's place when he is too ill to carry out his duties as Sheriff, and followed by Jim Grey, tracks down Blackie Wells, notorious 'bad man,' who has shot up a town. The trail leads over prairie and woodland, ending when Helen assumes the part of a dancing girl in the Last Chance saloon and learns the hiding place of Blackie and his associates.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-01
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The Bridge of Danger
Overview: The new superintendent's first order on taking the post eliminates the men whom he terms old, which costs "Pop" Bates his job as Helen's relief operator. His next declaration is that active railroad work is no place for women, and Helen is also dropped from the service. While Helen is breaking the news to Bob Bates, the new superintendent is hustling about the road yard speeding up the work. "Put more snap into your switching," he tells the men. A minute later, while he is making an inspection inside a boxcar with defective air brakes, a switching engine rams the car. The force of the impact, heightened by the recent orders, throws the superintendent to the floor stunned, and starts the car on the down grade. In the few moments it is speeding along the road and there is consternation among the men for a washout down the road means that it is headed to certain destruction.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-13
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The Human Telegram
Overview: To prevent a three mile journey around the mountain the telegraph wires at the construction camp have been strung over the precipice from the station on the mountain top. The operator is discharged when the superintendent suspects him of treachery and Helen is transferred to the station. Later, after the former operator has enlisted the aid of crooked brokers to use his knowledge in ruining the value of the road's stock, he receives an opportunity to get revenge on the superintendent.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-06
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The Race for a Siding
Overview: Through an accomplice the band of conspirators preying on railroads succeed in having the boxcar loaded with auto tires sidetracked at Lone Point instead of being taken on to its rightful destination. They are getting away with the valuable shipment when Helen takes a hand in the affair. While each of the trio carries a load of tires back to the autos which are in a sheltered spot, Helen hurriedly climbs the side of the boxcar and releasing the brakes the car, with its heavy load, starts down grade at great speed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-15
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The Record Run
Overview: The story is built around the rivalry of two railroads, and the record run that is to decide the awarding of large mail contracts.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-08
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The Trapping of 'Peeler' White
Overview: Dick Benton is making a game attempt to start life all over again, after escaping from prison where he was confined for a crime he did not commit. "Peeler" White, who was really guilty, and who aided Benton to escape without telling the reason for his interest, stumbles across the young man who is now an express messenger. "Peeler" threatens to disclose his knowledge unless Benton aids him in a fake hold-up. The young man pretends to be a willing victim, but really warns the railroad detectives and "Peeler" and his companion find themselves in a trap on the train the following day.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-01
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The Detective's Peril
Overview: Hanging from a rope over the track, the detective seems certain to plunge to death when the oncoming train splits the knot of the rope which has been tied to a rail and slung over the bridge girder. Helen's presence of mind and nerve in swinging out over the river on the other end of the rope and thus balancing the detective until the train has passed prevents the terrible catastrophe. Later, when pursuing the culprits, Helen once more takes her life in her hands by throwing a lasso from the hand car on which they are pursuing the freight over the brake beam, and then crawling hand over hand to the top of the car.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-25
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Danger Ahead
Overview: Tom Covington, a freight train conductor, who tries to get his rival Ralph Lasher into trouble by putting oil on the tracks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-14
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A Mile a Minute
Overview: Hume and Frintz, while riding in a boxcar, see a trunk in the unguarded baggage car of a passenger train. By a daring leap from the freight to the passenger, Hume steals the trunk, throws it into one of the boxcars, and then leaps back. The trunk is missed and the loss reported from Helen's station.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-23
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The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children
Overview: Discharged for drinking, Coleman attempts to get even by releasing the brakes on an empty boxcar, to which is coupled a flatcar, allowing them to run wild down the main line on which he knows the president's special is coming. Coleman does not know that his children, Helen and Paul, are playing on the flat car.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-30
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Danger Ahead!
Overview: Sterling and Ella steal a jewelry salesman's sample bag and make their getaway by boarding a passenger train. Word is flashed ahead to Helen, who in turn notifies Bowring, a railroad detective. The train is flagged.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-06
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The Girl and the Special
Overview: Disguised as baggage man, Burgess and Whelan board the train to which is coupled the special carrying Nina Mallotte and her theatrical troupe. The thieves plan to steal the actress' gems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-13
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The Girl on the Bridge
Overview: Communicating with his pals outside, Daly informs them as to the date upon which he is to be taken from the jail to State's prison. Kling, the head of the gang, arranges to hold up the train carrying Daly and effect the man's rescue.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-20
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The Dynamite Train
Overview: The shifting of the dynamite contained in a boxcar causes the latter to be cut from the freight and set out as unsafe. While this is being done, the Jones gang waylays Emerick, a cattleman who has just sold a herd of stock. Detectives are sent after the thieves.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-27
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The Tramp Telegrapher
Overview: Beaten by Dun and Corson, Trent is hurled unconscious to the tracks. Helen, who witnesses the attack, drags Trent from the rails just in time to save him from death beneath the wheels of an oncoming train. When the tramp revives, he accompanies his rescuer back to the station.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-04
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Crossed Wires
Overview: Crossed telephone wires enable Helen to overhear a plot between Joe and Bill, escaped convicts, to join a number of Chinese who are being smuggled into the country in a freight train.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-11
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A Boy at the Throttle
Overview: Climbing into a cab of a freight engine, Bobbie Layson, the son of a station pulls the throttle open. The alarm goes out and Helen, stationed at Lone Point, is ordered to derail the runaway and thus prevent it from running head-on into the approaching passenger train. Fearing for his son's life, Layson phones Helen
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-25
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The Broken Brake
Overview: This short action drama is a compilation of at least two films with Helen Gibson.
Genres: Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Winning the Franchise
Overview: Helen's father is the President of a railroad company competing for a very lucrative government contract. A rival company organizes sabotage and Helen is the only one who can save the day.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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At the Risk of Her Life
Overview: Tony, a half-breed Mexican is kicked from pillar to post, but he grasps a chance for revenge on society when he peers through the station window and sees Helen, the operator at Lone Point, opening the express company bag containing a valuable shipment to a local rancher.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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When Seconds Count
Overview: #61 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-08
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The Haunted Station
Overview: A fall from a semaphore weakens Wood's mind and when he later disappears circumstances point to suicide. His ghostly appearances make the post known as the "Haunted Station," and Helen is appointed as a last resort after many others have quit.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-15
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Tapped Wires
Overview: After binding Helen to prevent her from stopping the express train to have it await an armed guard, crooks board the train, disable the messenger and dynamite the safe. Helen later takes a short cut in an auto and overtakes the train, but the crooks leap from the speeding train into her car before she can warn the engineer and train crew.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-29
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The Broken Wire
Overview: When the Limited is forced to stop because of an obstruction on the tracks, the passengers alight for a stroll. In the excitement of boarding again one of the passengers loses a handbag containing her jewels and money. Two crooks aboard the train hear of this and at Helen's station they alight.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-05
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The Peril of the Rails
Overview: Apparent carelessness causes Conductor Lawton and his train crew to be laid off for thirty days. A gang of car thieves, pursued by police, jump aboard a freight, and after a stiff combat, succeed in throwing the crew off the speeding train to the ground.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-12
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The Perilous Swing
Overview: Helen is enjoying a ride on her horse, "Hazard," after her day's work, when news comes that "Red" Purdy and his aides are escaping after making a big haul. When the automobile in which they are escaping breaks down they take to a handcar. Helen pursues them down the track while the Sheriff and his posse set out to head them off on a short cut.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-19
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The Switchman's Story
Overview: Number 68 in the Hazards of Helen series.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-26
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The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve
Overview: Steve Nelson, a clever crook, arrives at the little station where Helen is operator. He lives quietly at the village's little boarding house preparing for a coup when Helen receives instructions that lead her to suspect Steve.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-04
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A Race for a Life
Overview: A college boy's prank imperils the life of the railroad president's son who has worked his way up to engineer in his course that starts "from the bottom." Tied to the engine, the son is speeding on a runaway engine toward the Flicker Creek bridge which has been swept away by the floods.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-11
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To Save the Road
Overview: The vote stands a tie on the railroad bill that will mean ruin to the Western line should it pass the State Legislature. By getting Senator Brown, who is aboard a liner quarantined in the bay, to the Capitol the day will be saved. The road superintendent takes a daring chance and aboard a motorboat succeeds in smuggling the Senator ashore and to a Western special which speeds off towards the Capitol of the neighboring State.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-08
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The Broken Brake
Overview: In a scuffle between the assistant foreman and a discharged employee at the mountain construction camp the latter's revolver is fired, bringing about a dynamite explosion that severely injures many of the men.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-15
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In Death's Pathway
Overview: Burkett, superintendent of the Western Railway, opposes his daughter's friendship for Dick Benton, one of the company's lawyers, favoring the latter's fellow-worker, Guy Warren. Warren succeeds in putting through a scheme which results in Dick's discharge. The lovers plan to elope and enlist the aid of Helen. But Eleanor's father learns of the move and wires ahead to police officials to board her train and arrest her while he follows in his special. By a daring leap from a handcar to the train Helen succeeds in warning Eleanor of her peril, but is too late, and Helen and Dick are forced to stand idly by while Burkett starts on the return trip in his special, carefully guarding Eleanor.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-22
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A Plunge from the Sky
Overview: Agents of a foreign power are seeking to get possession of the plans of a new aeroplane motor invented by Dick Benton. Under cover of darkness they succeed in their scheme and are escaping in their automobile when it plunges over an embankment near Lone Point.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-29
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The Girl Who Dared
Overview: The smugglers seem in a fair way to escape on a stolen engine when Helen, unhitching a team from a nearby wagon, races down the road towards the railroad bridge from which a rope is hanging directly over the track. Standing astride the two speeding horses Helen leaps to the rope, and swaying in mid-air makes a perilous drop to the stolen engine as it dashes past.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-18
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A Mystery of the Rails
Overview: Jud Hendricks, foreman of the construction camp, is being blackmailed by Gypsy Joe, who knows of a dark page in the Hendricks' past. Hendricks and Tom Rasom are rivals for the favor of Helen, with Tom in the lead. The latter, an engineer, is about to take his train out when he finds Gypsy Joe hiding in a boxcar.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-05
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Hurled Through the Drawbridge
Overview: Learning that the driver of the Comet car has been disabled on the eve of the big race, Sinton, a gambler, bets heavily on its rival. But his plans go awry when Gordon, the owner of the Comet car, meets Naroche, a celebrated French driver, and engages him to pilot the racer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-12
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The Trail of Danger
Overview: Following the wreck of the pay-car, it is rifled by a band of conspirators. All but one of the band later succeed in making their escape from the town by automobile, but this one is forced to jump aboard a freight train to which is attached the wreck train and huge crane.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-29
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The Spiked Switch
Overview: Trent returns to the throttle too soon after his recovery from illness. On the following day Ruth, his daughter, and Hume plan to elope. Trent, with a new fireman, is suddenly taken with a weak spell and when the fireman becomes panic-stricken there is a scuffle which ends with the fireman thrown to the ground while the fast freight speeds on.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-03
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A Race Through the Air
Overview: The 84th film in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-17
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The Engineer's Honor
Overview: Circumstances make Helen think that Jack, the engineer and son of the road's auditor, is guilty of the theft of $50 that comes to light through a shortage in her accounts. Gypsy Joe, the real thief, gathers his followers to seek vengeance on the train crew for having thrown him off the train.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-01
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With the Aid of the Wrecker
Overview: Greggs, returning from abroad with a large consignment of precious stones, thwarts the first attempt of Gentleman Joe and his accomplice to rob him at his hotel, but they follow him aboard the train the when he is alone on the observation platform they attack him, and a struggle ensues in which Greggs is finally thrown to the ground from the speeding train. Helen, riding through the hills in an auto, comes upon him before Joe and his pal can alight from the train, Greggs gives her the diamonds and tells her to speed away and rush help back to take care of his injuries.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-19
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At Danger's Call
Overview: Helen, discharged by the superintendent without justification, comes to the rescue when a flat car, loaded with dynamite, is tearing to certain destruction down the grade, bearing the mischievous son of the superintendent.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-26
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The Secret of the Box Car
Overview: Escaping after an early morning bank robbery, Gentleman Joe and his pal succeed in boarding a freight train headed toward Lone Point. Fearing rightly that a warning has been sent down the line, they secrete their loot in a box car, and, after noting its number, alight and seek cover until after the pursuit has cooled.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-02
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Ablaze on the Rails
Overview: Helen, by a courageous leap from a motorcycle, reaches the burning boxcar in which the detectives are imprisoned and succeeds in applying the brakes in time to bring it to a stop and save them from almost certain death.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-09
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The Hoodoo of Division B
Overview: The new superintendent scoffs at the men's fear of Engine 3615, and declares that it must be put into service at once. Engineer Kent, a veteran of the road, refuses to take the throttle and is discharged. Dick Benton, a young engineer, is induced to take the engine out and "kill this talk of a hoodoo."
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-16
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Defying Death
Overview: Dick Benton, a young attorney of the railroad, is on his way to the Capitol to deliver evidence involving Riggs in a conspiracy arising out of a fight with the railroad over a franchise. At Lone Point he learns that by leaving the package to be picked up by the express it will reach the Governor sooner than he can bring it on the local.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-23
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The Death Swing
Overview: Stallings' plot to spoil the demonstration of Dick Benton's newly invented safety stop for trains seems certain of success when the locomotive is sent running wild down the tracks. Helen saves the day by climbing out on a wire stretching across the tracks and dropping to the speeding engine.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-30
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The Blocked Track
Overview: On a visit to the State Prison with Superintendent Melvin of the construction camp near Lone Point. Helen gains the friendship of Butler, a former telegrapher who had been wrongfully convicted on circumstantial evidence. Butler is soon to be released and Helen promises to aid him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-07
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The Prima Donna's Special
Overview: Helen, station agent and telegraph operator at Lone Point, is in despair over a broken sounder when Morley, who has dropped off a passing freight, offers to fix it for her. Recognizing in him a man whose skill points back to happier days, Helen encourages him to tell her his story, promising to get him the position of relief operator if he cares to accept it. Morley's story takes him back several years to the time when he gave up his position as an operator following the death of his wife. He has never seen his little daughter since turning her over to the care of a rich brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-10
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The Sidetracked Sleeper
Overview: Rupert Winslow, traffic superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram stating that his wife, who is ill, will be on the midnight express. He calls in Summers, a veteran brakeman on the passenger run and instructs him to watch over Mrs. Winslow and to sidetrack her sleeper if she requires medical attention.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-17
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The Death Siding
Overview: Helen, the telegraph operator at the Lone Point Station, shields Miguel, a greaser, under suspicion of having stolen some horses, until the real thieves are caught.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-03
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To Save the Special
Overview: Film 101 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-14
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A Daring Chance
Overview: Film 102 in the Hazards of Helen series.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-21
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The Lost Messenger
Overview: Film 103 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-28
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The Gate of Death
Overview: Film 104 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-04
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The Lone Point Mystery
Overview: Film 105 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-11
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The Runaway Sleeper
Overview: Film 106 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-18
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The Forgotten Train Order
Overview: 107th film in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-25
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The Trial Run
Overview: Film 108 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-02
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The Lineman's Peril
Overview: Film #109 in the Hazards of Helen series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-09
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The Midnight Express
Overview: Film #110 in the Hazards of Helen series.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-16
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The Vanishing Box Car
Overview: Film 111 of the Hazards of Helen film series
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-23
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A Race with Death
Overview: Film #112 in the Hazards of Helen series.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-30
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The Mogul Mountain Mystery
Overview: Bert Morgan and "Squint" Booth are freight agents for rival railroads concerned in getting the contract for hauling the gold ore produced by the Mogul Mountain mine. The contract finally falls to the road employing Morgan upon his promise to have cars in operation over an abandoned spur track within three weeks' time.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-06
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The Fireman's Nemesis
Overview: Joe, the Wop, employed in the roundhouse near Lone Point is notified that he has been promoted and will take his place that night as a fireman on the local freight. On his way home he stops at the station to tell Helen, the operator, of his good fortune. As Joe starts down the track towards home, Scarlotta, a member of a notorious vendetta that has marked Joe for death, shoots him from ambush. Helen sees Joe fall in the middle of the track and barely succeeds in dragging him to safety out of the path of the limited. Joe's wound is not serious and that night he takes his place as fireman on the freight. Determined to "get" Joe, Scarlotta visits the station where Helen is still at her key and after binding her and locking her in a closet, throws the switch so that the freight will collide with the cars on the siding.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-13
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The Wrecked Station
Overview: Helen, the telegraph operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram for Sydney Wayne, superintendent of the Graham Gravel plant, advising him that the plant has changed ownership and that Stanton Grey accompanied by his daughter Edith, is on his way to Lone Point to inspect the property. Wayne is startled because he has gambled away the company's money and realizes that his books will not balance. Fortune appears to favor him when Grey is carried into the station unconscious as the result of an automobile accident. He extracts Grey's wallet from his pocket but Cole, the gambler, who has trailed Wayne gets a photograph of him in the act. With the photographic evidence, the gambler tries to blackmail Wayne.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-20
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The Drunkard
Overview: An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-03
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The Way of the West
Overview: Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit is Horton and when Horton kills Parker he frames Gordon. His identity revealed, the Sheriff lets Gordon escape to go after the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
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The Silver Lining
Overview: A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-16
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The Vanishing West
Overview: A boy's father is an unjustly accused fugitive, and the boy's scheming uncle plots to become the youngster's guardian and take over the family fortune.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-15
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Heroes of the Wild
Overview: The only key to a young woman's fortune lies in a marking on the leg of a horse called The Ghost of the Gauchos. But the woman's guardian, her uncle, plots to steal her wealth.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-01
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Nine Points of the Law
Overview: Bruce McLeod returns from the goldfields to find that his wife has left home with another man, taking their child. After the death of the mother, the child is adopted by Cherie, a local dancehall girl ostracized by the community. Cullum, a gambler who earlier seduced Mrs. McLeod, drifts into the town, and failing to win Cherie, he swears vengeance. McLeod, seeking the man who wrecked his home, falls in love with Cherie but scorns her when he discovers that she is a dancer. Ultimately, the child identifies Cullum as the gambler who lured Mrs. McLeod from her home. In the ensuing fight, Cullum is shot by a halfbreed, and Bruce is happily united with Cherie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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The Railroad Claim Intrigue
Overview: Barstow, a crook, conceives the idea of buying old automobiles, staging "accidents" with them, and settling with the railroad. At the Lone Point crossing one of his machines is hit by the train and the flagman is discharged because it appears that he has been negligent. Helen, the telegraph operatic, gets a day off and starts for the hills on horseback. She meets Duncan, a railroad detective sent to investigate the increasing number of crossing accidents.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-27
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Play Straight or Fight
Overview: Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who has fallen under the evil influence of unscrupulous companions. The climax of the story comes when Helen learns that her brother is to take part in a stage hold-up. To save him she dons male attire and holds up the stage at a point several miles in advance of her brother's attempt.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-15
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The Midnight Flyer
Overview: One of two former convicts is the brother of a girl station agent. The second ex-convict tries to blackmail the youth and drag him back to a criminal life, but the sister intervenes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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The Branded Man
Overview: A group of law-abiding cowboys work together to drive cattle rustlers off their range.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-13
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The Black Horse Bandit
Overview: Helen's father, the sheriff, is murdered and she successfully undertakes the task of bringing his murderer to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-15
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Ace High
Overview: Ace High is a silent Western short.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-07
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Custer's Last Stand
Overview: Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Fighting Caballero
Overview: Desperados menace a mining operation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-05
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Danger Valley
Overview: When Temple's miners strike gold they send Jake to file the claim. Dana is in the Recorder's office and overhears. He and his men kill Jake and forge new deeds. Now owning everything Dana tries to kick the Temple group off their land. But Jack and sidekick Lucky are on hand and plan to help them fight back.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-03
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Gun Play
Overview: A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-02
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Law and Lawless
Overview: Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lopez's foreman Barnes is one of Daggett's men and he frames Montana for murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-29
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The Open Track
Overview: "The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen". This is episode 63 from a total of 119 weekly one reel films produced by Kalem. Helen's cleverness exposes a band of counterfeiters who later succeed in turning the tables on the railroad detectives and tying the two men to the cowcatcher of a train which they then start off down the grade. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-22
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The Ghost of the Canyon
Overview: Two railroad companies compete for a very lucrative contract. Helen's father is the first in command, and her fiance the second in one of the companies. The rival company organizes a sabotage, which is exposed by Helen. Unfortunately for her, she is alone against three men who tie her up to the railroad tracks. She faces imminent death unless she finds a way to free herself from the ropes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Wrong Train Order
Overview: In this episode everything goes wrong. Helen ends up on the rear observation deck of a runaway express train with the door to the inside closed, with the air-brake of the engine damaged, the engine itself full of steam and inaccessible, and the train speeding ahead on the wrong track.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-19
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The Governor's Special
Overview: The film is directed by James Davis from a story by Edward T. Matlack. In this episode Helen Gibson performs one absolutely breathtaking stunt, which just shows how dangerous it was to act for silent film pioneers, especially for stuntmen and stuntwomen. There is a twist to the plot, and Helen Gibson not only has to save her governor from mortal danger, but also the life of somebody close to her, who has been sentenced to die without guilt.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-22
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Payroll Pirates
Overview: A thrilling dramatic story of a woman's invincible courage.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Luck of Roaring Camp
Overview: When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Saga of Death Valley
Overview: When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Cyclone of the Saddle
Overview: Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-03
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The Oregon Trail
Overview: Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-04
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Stagecoach
Overview: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-02
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Southward Ho!
Overview: Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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New Frontier
Overview: The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Overview: A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Bride of Frankenstein
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Overview: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Young Bill Hickok
Overview: Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-21
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Deadwood Dick
Overview: Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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City That Never Sleeps
Overview: Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-12
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Cowboys from Texas
Overview: Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-29
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The Treasure of Lost Canyon
Overview: Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan. Years later, now a trained thief, he's adopted by eccentric 'Doc' Brown, retired miner and pharmacist. Doc and David become fast friends in their scenic outdoor rambles. But when they discover a hidden treasure, the idyllic interlude gives way to more troubles and a strange coincidence.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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The Rustlers
Overview: Disguised as a peaceful sheepman, Clayburn is actually a government ranger sent to Point Rock to find the leaders of a band of rustlers. When he is himself accused of being one of them, Nell saves him from a lynch mob and together they round up the real outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-26
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Gun Law
Overview: Secret Serviceman Allen takes a job at Bart Stevens' mine in order to find evidence proving that Stevens is a mail robber named Smoke Gublen. He does - but by then, he is in love with the man's sister - and to make things harder, Stevens saves his life...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-10
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Overview: The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-07
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King of the Arena
Overview: Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Cheyenne Cowboy
Overview: Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier. He's roaming the range incognito while trying to identify who's behind the cattle rustling that is afflicting his new business.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Fighting Mad
Overview: Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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The Climax
Overview: Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
Genres: Music Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-20
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The Hazards of Helen
Overview: The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917. Most episodes of this serial are presumed lost.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-24
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Horizons West
Overview: Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-11
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The Man from the Alamo
Overview: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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The Horse Soldiers
Overview: A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-11
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